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Long-term unemployment and labor force participation : a decomposition of unemployment to test for the discouragement and added worker hypotheses

Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - 2015

unemployment rate - into a short-term and a long-term component. While short-term unemployment might not result in additional … workers on a large scale, long-term unemployment reduces household income more, increasing the need for additional income. On … are available, distinguishing between short-term and long-term unemployment reveals discouragement effects. …

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Modeling migration dynamics in stochastic labor supply forecasting

Hellwagner, Timon; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Enzo - 2023

Population size and structure in conjunction with the participation behavior are the determinants of labor supply. Thereby, among the demographic components, migration is the one shaping both the size and the structure of a population the strongest in the short to medium term while...

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Forecasting labour supply and population : an integrated stochastic model

Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Brigitte; … - 2017 - Aktualisierte Fassung vom 17. Mai 2017

This paper presents a stochastic integrated model to forecast the German population and labour supply until 2060. Within a cohort-component approach, the population forecast applies principal components to birth, mortality, emigration and immigration rates. The labour force participation rates...

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The rise in female employment and the role of tax incentives : an empirical analysis of the Swedish individual tax reform of 1971

Selin, Håkan - 2009

Sweden reached the 2007 OECD average level of female labor force participation already in 1974. Before, but not after, 1971 the average tax rate facing the housewife was a function of the income of her husband. By exploiting a rich register based data source I utilize the exogenous variation...

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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - 2012

unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …

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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - 2012

unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …

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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - 2012

unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …

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What happens to the husband's retirement decision when the wife's retirement incentives change?

Selin, Håkan - 2012 - This version: 2012-03-22

Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses’ retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...

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The effects of skill-biased technical change on productivity flattening and hours worked

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

In a structural macroeconometric analysis based on comprehensive micro data, we examine the role of skill-biased technical change for the flattening of productivity growth and effects on hours worked. The results show that more than 60 percent of the slowdown in productivity growth in Germany...

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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2013

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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